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单词 pharmaceutical
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pharmaceuticaladj.n.

Brit. /ˌfɑːməˈs(j)uːtᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌfɑrməˈsudəkəl/
Forms: 1600s pharmaceuticall, 1600s– pharmaceutical.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin pharmaceuticus , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin pharmaceuticus pharmaceutic adj. + -al suffix1. Compare slightly later pharmacal adj. With use as noun compare earlier pharmaceutic n. 2.
A. adj.
Of, relating to, or engaged in pharmacy; used in pharmacy, of the nature of a medicinal drug; of or relating to the manufacture, use, or sale of medicinal drugs. See also pharmaceutical chemist n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [adjective]
pharmaceutical1636
pharmacal1638
pharmaceutic1651
pharmacopoietic1670
pharmacopoietical1670
1636 J. Sadler Sicke Woman's Private Looking-glasse ii. 22 The cure shall bee taken from Chirurgicall, Pharmaceuticall, and Diæteticall Means.
1648 W. Petty Advice to Hartlib (new ed.) 16 Some good pharmaceuticall, Botanick and Chymicall Institutions.
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 671 Pharmaceutical compositions and Chymical discoveries.
1718 E. Strother Euodia 77 He [sc. the reader] may in some measure, supply the non-mention of these heads, by revising observations he will meet in proper pharmaceutical tracts.
1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. xiv. 231 The Surgeon..asked, ‘who was to pay him for his trouble?’ observing, ‘that he could not work for nothing..they were obliged to walk the hospitals, to attend anatomical and pharmaceutical lectures, and the like.’
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 108 Remarks on the concentration of vinegar, and on some pharmaceutical preparations formed from this acid.
1821 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 2) I. iii. 41 The foundations of chemical science are to be found in the medical and pharmaceutical writers of the sixteenth century.
1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 121 It shall be unlawful for any Person to..use the title ‘Chemist and Druggist’..unless such Person shall be a Pharmaceutical Chemist.
1904 Daily Chron. 26 Feb. 9/6 The ‘Pharmaceutical Journal’, which is the official organ of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
1942 Fortune Nov. 68 (advt.) Anheuser-Busch is one of the world's biggest sources of natural B Complex vitamins for manufacturers of pharmaceutical and food products.
2002 Daily Tel. 8 Nov. 37/7 Crestor, the cholesterol treatment tipped as a blockbuster drug for the pharmaceutical giant.
B. n.
A pharmaceutical preparation; a medicinal drug. Usually in plural.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament
medicine?c1225
physicc1325
treacle1340
dia1377
pharmacyc1385
drugc1400
medicament?1440
applyment1561
spece1605
pharmack1643
eradicative1654
medicinal1667
medicinable1683
operative1716
pharmaceutical1829
pharmaceutic1927
meds1967
macrofilaricide1978
1829 Lancet 31 Jan. 555/2 They might effect much good, by sending a written caution in the name of the College [of Physicians], to venders of inferior pharmaceuticals.
1881 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. & Trans. 10 Sept. 219/1 The association of trade in pharmaceuticals from extraneous sources with the practice of pharmacy and trade in pharmaceuticals made at home is a matter of convenience both to the pharmacist and the public.
1918 Science 28 June 631/1 The commercial exhibit included practically all of the recently developed foods, pharmaceuticals and mechanical devices resulting from necessities created by the advance of scientific knowledge and the military emergency.
1955 T. Sterling Evil of Day iv. 39 The night-table..was prominently littered with pharmaceuticals.
1993 New Scientist 16 Jan. 16/1 Quinoids, such as quinic acid and benzoquinone, are important building blocks in the synthesis of many chemicals, from agrochemicals to pharmaceuticals.
2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xi. 115 Admittedly some were impulse buys, explainable by his ingestion of enough pharmaceuticals to stun a roadie.

Derivatives

pharmaˈceutically adv. in relation to, or from the point of view of, pharmacy; by means of or with respect to medicinal drugs.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [adverb]
pharmaceutically1765
1765 W. Lewis New Dispensatory (ed. 2) Pref. p. v Many of the capital articles I have examined pharmaceutically.
1874 A. B. Garrod & E. B. Baxter Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 4) 116 A solid mass is produced, rendering the combination pharmaceutically incompatible.
2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 12 Aug. 68/1 Those first few weeks he worked on the bungalow, I realized how often he was pharmaceutically fueled.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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